The Glory of God on Your Face -UPDATED
Nothing thrills a writer more than to read something and tsk wistfully about it, “boy, I wish I’d written that!” Which is how I began my morning. Thrilled and wistful! The great Pat Gohn has written...
View ArticleWhat Do You Really Believe?
It’s a great question to stop people of faith in their tracks and get them pondering, “well, what DO I believe.” I remember once watching an old Mother Angelica Live broadcast and hearing her say...
View ArticleUnemployment Numbers & a Timely Meditation
The unemployment numbers are looking pretty dismal and bleak, aren’t they? A while back, I was praying for someone’s job intention when it turned into a meditation through the Sorrowful Mysteries of...
View Article"We had Cancer & Christ in Common
“Friendship” by Picasso It’s breast cancer awareness month, and Pat Gohn has permitted me to reprint an affecting piece she wrote a couple of years ago, about her own breast cancer, and the a deep and...
View ArticleFr. Barron on Eucharistic Adoration
It takes a genuine bigot to suggest that Eucharistic Adoration is a practice reserved to the stupid and the uneducated. Another sort of elitism.
View Article"What Does God Look Like?"
Deacon Greg has a way of finding the perfect graphic to go with a piece, and he has done it again here – using that painting (which I have shamelessly cribbed) to illustrate this excellent piece by...
View ArticleThe Audacity of Wonder – UPDATED
Illustration Source) Over at First Things, my Tuesday Column is looking at our mania for credentials and how it closes doors, narrows minds and holds wonder at arms length: He has authored over a dozen...
View ArticleBuilding on what you’ve built: A GREAT Story
My Patheos colleague Tim Dalrymple has a story and video that really should make everyone stop in their tracks and think about what we all mean when we say (or sneer) at each other: “success”,...
View ArticleDoes Church Suppress God’s Will? That’s Wicked, Right?
Like Mark Shea, I too thought the National Catholic Reporter had endorsed female ordination years ago. I actually had no intention of writing about it for my First Things column, today. Yet somehow —...
View ArticleWhat the hell is WRONG with these people? – UPDATE
If you ever doubted that there is a battle going on all around us — a true battle — between good and evil, and that that battle engages every single one of us whether we are aware of it or not, the...
View ArticleCardinal DiNardo at Baptist U
I can’t remember where I came upon this video -it might have been from First Things’ Evangel blog- but I like it a lot, and I think y’all will, too: Daniel Cardinal DiNardo, the Archbishop of...
View ArticleAnglican Ordinariate Proceeds Apace
Heraldry of Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Pope Benedict XVI, respectively On the heels of Pope Benedict’s well-received visit to the United Kingdom came the announcement last week of...
View ArticleThe Glory of God on Your Face -UPDATED
Nothing thrills a writer more than to read something and tsk wistfully about it, “boy, I wish I’d written that!” Which is how I began my morning. Thrilled and wistful! The great Pat Gohn has written...
View ArticleWhat Do You Really Believe?
It’s a great question to stop people of faith in their tracks and get them pondering, “well, what DO I believe.” I remember once watching an old Mother Angelica Live broadcast and hearing her say...
View ArticleUnemployment Numbers & a Timely Meditation
The unemployment numbers are looking pretty dismal and bleak, aren’t they? A while back, I was praying for someone’s job intention when it turned into a meditation through the Sorrowful Mysteries of...
View Article"We had Cancer & Christ in Common
“Friendship” by Picasso It’s breast cancer awareness month, and Pat Gohn has permitted me to reprint an affecting piece she wrote a couple of years ago, about her own breast cancer, and the a deep and...
View ArticleFr. Barron on Eucharistic Adoration
It takes a genuine bigot to suggest that Eucharistic Adoration is a practice reserved to the stupid and the uneducated. Another sort of elitism.
View ArticleThe Audacity of Wonder – UPDATED
Illustration Source) Over at First Things, my Tuesday Column is looking at our mania for credentials and how it closes doors, narrows minds and holds wonder at arms length: He has authored over a dozen...
View ArticleBuilding on what you’ve built: A GREAT Story
My Patheos colleague Tim Dalrymple has a story and video that really should make everyone stop in their tracks and think about what we all mean when we say (or sneer) at each other: “success”,...
View ArticleDoes Church Suppress God’s Will? That’s Wicked, Right?
Like Mark Shea, I too thought the National Catholic Reporter had endorsed female ordination years ago. I actually had no intention of writing about it for my First Things column, today. Yet somehow —...
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